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	Pakistan: PRC to Establish 121 Labs, Blood Donation Centres
	Lahore—Pakistan Red Crescent (PRC) will establish 121 laboratories to diagnose different diseases and blood donation centres across the country. In an interview with APP here on Sunday (October 9), PRC Chairman Dr Saeed Elahi said that no person would die due to shortage of blood if two percent people in the country donate blood.\r\nHe said that blood screening of prisoners in different jails of the country will be started and screening of 5,000 prisoners in Adyala Jail would be carried out as a project and added that ambulance Service College had been established at national headquarters.
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	Pakistan: Citizens Demand Better Services at PIMS Emergency Dept
	Islamabad: Citizens on Sunday (October 23) demanded of the authorities concerned to improve healthcare services at the emergency department of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to entertain the maximum number of patients.\r\nAccording to them, a large number of patients from far-flung areas visit the PIMS emergency unit daily and face many problems because of lack of facilities and adequate services. When contacted, the Vice Chancellor, Shaheed Zulifqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, PIMS Dr Javed Akram, said that a sufficient number of doctors performed duties at the hospital\'s emergency wards.
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	Pakistan: 22 Killed, Over 60 Injured in Karachi Train Crash ? Emergency was declared in Karachi��s Hospitals
	Karachi: As many as 22 people, including seven women and two children, were killed and over 65 injured, some of them seriously, when a speeding Zakaria Express rammed into the stationary Fareed Express.\r\nEmergency was declared in Karachi’s major hospitals and ambulances of private welfare organisations rushed to the spot. However, people from nearby areas pulled out the dead and injured from the wreckage on self-help basis while ambulances took around 30-40 minutes in reaching the site of the accident and took another 30 minutes in transporting the injured to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center.
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	Pakistan: Young Doctors Shut Emergency of Mayo Hospital
	Lahore: A child and a cardiac patient died on Thursday in Mayo hospital over not receiving timely treatment as the emergency ward has been locked in the aftermath of doctors’ protest. The child was identified as Sana and other patient as Sadiq.\r\nThe protest of Young Doctors Association (YDA) seeking the restoration of two doctors and a nurse has entered third day. The doctors and nurse have been dismissed from duty for torturing a patient and his relatives.
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	Pakistan: Rescue Operations In Trouble
	Rescue operations of the Edhi Foundation have been suffering due to the disinterest of the federal government that has failed to grant permission to the charity to sell more than 300 of its heavy-duty vehicles, despite repeated requests.\r\n In order to generate funds to replace the “obsolete and useless” ones, they need permission to sell them in order to buy new vehicles required to partake in rescue operations. \r\nAccording to the organisation they requested the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the finance ministry a number of times but did not receive a single reply.\r\n \r\nThe pressing need of new vehicles were felt
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Pakistan: PRC to Establish 121 Labs, Blood Donation Centres

Pakistan: Citizens Demand Better Services at PIMS Emergency Dept

Pakistan: 22 Killed, Over 60 Injured in Karachi Train Crash ? Emergency was declared in Karachi��s Hospitals

Pakistan: Young Doctors Shut Emergency of Mayo Hospital

Pakistan: Rescue Operations In Trouble

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